Conservative: Rebecca Black song "a welcome relief from the relentless sexualization of chidlhood"

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(via ConWebWatch) Yep, someone is writing in defense of Rebecca Black's terrible song "Friday" (which got a makeover by Stephen Colbert on Friday's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon). That would be Erin Brown from the Culture and Media Institute (a division of Brent Bozell's Media Research Center):

While most of the attention has focused on her immature song and video, there is a lesson to be learned and a broader point to be made by her age-appropriate success.

With former role models like Miley Cyrus and Lindsay Lohan turning from innocent Disney icons into raunchy adult stars, Rebecca Black has provided a welcome relief from the relentless sexualization of chidlhood.

"Friday" has been excoriated as "uniquely terrible," "hilariously dreadful," and called the "Worst Song Ever" But Black's "Friday" is exactly what parents are looking for to replace the filth in pop culture. Society has been spending too much time poking fun at her shallow song, and not enough time recognizing that almost 70 million hits means that a popular video flocked with an innocent message can still win out.

Because making a total fool out of yourself is age-appropriate isn't it? And c'mon, Miley Cyrus as a role model...I'm sure that the pop star life and mindless materialism are values that make good ol' kids. Even the Koch Brothers are better role models.

And at Conwebwatch, Terry Krepel highlights this particular passage:

...the video for Lady Gaga's chart-topping hit "Born This Way" on YouTube has only garnered a little over 28 million hits, compared to black's 69 million. The 'gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered' anthem from the pop sensation accrued more than 440,000 downloads in its first week. This radio and digital sales record-breaking song has yet to receive even half of the internet hits already obtained by the previously unknown teen.

In other words: Rebecca Black is out there to save the kids from being recruited by the gays!!! And Krepel comments: "Because, you know, Internet hits is always an indicator of quality of a video's content."

By the way, Conwebwatch has many great criticisms and rebuttals of the Media Research Center, WorldNetDaily, and Newsmax, and the occasional "no comment needed" post or cheap jab.

And didn't Lady Gaga steal "Born This Way" from Madonna's "Express Yourself"?

There is plenty of family-friendly music out there that doesn't sink to Rebecca Black's level. Taylor Swift, for example. And to be honest, religious indoctrination and promotion of homophobia, slut-shaming, and intolerance are a greater harm to childhood.